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05-21-2008, 01:38 PM
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Enjoying the Ride
Joined: Mar 2006
Location: Rice Hill, Or.
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Oregon gas problems?
Has anyone experienced hard starting or other problems with the new Oregon gas ethanol mix? Can we expect trouble in the future?
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05-21-2008, 02:44 PM
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just passin' through
Joined: May 2005
Location: Tumalo, Oregon
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no problems, just seems like decreased mileage.
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05-21-2008, 02:49 PM
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bRad
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Location: Bothell, WA
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05-21-2008, 02:53 PM
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Beastly Adventurer
Joined: Nov 2006
Location: NE Oregon
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Define Problem..
Gas just went to $3.99=87 $4.09=89 and $4.19= 91..D = $4.79
Mileage does drop with ethanol and don't let it sit in tank too long...ethanol absorbs/affinty for water...out here in damn near zero humidity no biggee..on coast..well a potential issue..but hey, nobody said saving the planet was going to be easy or cheap! 
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05-21-2008, 08:44 PM
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Kiss My Shiny Metal Ass
Joined: Jun 2007
Location: Hood River, OR
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05-21-2008, 08:50 PM
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Knees in the Breeze
Joined: Jun 2006
Location: In the Mustard Booyah. Whooop!!
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05-21-2008, 09:16 PM
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cop magnet
Joined: Jan 2006
Location: Springfield,,,,like the Simpsons,,,orygun
Oddometer: 11,009
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poorer mileage, and lessened performance to I feel. So, our gubmint is doing the normal thing pandering to mega corp, you get less, but it costs you more. Kinda like organized crime, I wonder if heroin is getting more expensive, ain't the gubmint got a hand in that too?
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05-21-2008, 10:14 PM
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Journeyman Bike Knocker
Joined: Feb 2007
Location: "Looking For Beer"
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05-22-2008, 01:06 AM
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Beastly Adventurer
Joined: Jul 2007
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Oregon gas problems? Only with the meth addicts that pump the gas.
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05-22-2008, 07:36 AM
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Underinteresting
Joined: Oct 2007
Location: Alphabet District, Portland
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05-22-2008, 08:00 AM
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Joined: Aug 2005
Location: Forest Grove, OR
Oddometer: 3,617
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Corn Liquor is for drinking not for pouring into our gas tanks.
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05-22-2008, 08:17 AM
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Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Jul 2005
Location: Boise, Idaho - In the heart of Dual-Sport Paradise
Oddometer: 298
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Shameful..
It DOES seem to be a shameful waste of fine mash, doesn't it.
Fred Meyer here in Boise is now selling ethanol blended (10%) gasoline. Byron
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05-22-2008, 08:18 AM
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Broken Hearted
Joined: Jun 2006
Location: NoPo (pdx)
Oddometer: 9,543
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I've gotten over 50 mpg on my last three tanks
 No decrease in power, still starts easy. |
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05-22-2008, 10:02 AM
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Semi-Adventurer
Joined: Dec 2005
Location: Rainville, Orygun, where moss is a road hazard.
Oddometer: 9,839
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05-22-2008, 11:00 AM
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a has-been that never-was
Joined: Nov 2004
Location: Baja Sur winter. PDX summer (that's like 6 wks!)
Oddometer: 1,845
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I stored them over the winter with full tanks of the E10 gas (that is all that was available) in unheated garage. I have experienced 10% drop in milage on bikes & cars with no other changes. I can say this with certainty because I ran them on 100% gas in baja and then came over the border with the same equipment and saw the milage reduction with E10. Plus the increased costs of stateside gas! My track bike runs good so far on Chevron Supreme, just costs almost 2X for fuel vs. a year ago! I haven't run a carb'd bike at high altitude yet 'cause the high roads are still covered with snow. I know my 2 stroke 250 runs like shit on E10 especially when cold; it may need some rejet work. Future trouble? I think more diligence in keeping fuel system filters clean and tanks full when parked long-term will help. Use StaBil at 2X reccomended dosage when laying up bikes for the winter with the tank full. Carbureted bikes may need to go richer, but I haven't seen/heard of anyone doing this yet. The Big Corn lobby is going to keep sticking it to us on ethanol. It is a subsidized ripoff of Oregon consumers. I have not seen any evidence of actual air pollution benefits. This sort of data is hard to come by, but common sense says that if I'm getting significantly worse milage that I'm blowing more combustion products out the tailpipe per mile than before E10. I think the air pollution issue is no better than a draw and was used to sell this program to the legislature. Moving to Mexico is looking better and better all the time!
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